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How We Fell || Glen Colquhoun || I would recommend Glen Colquhoun's poetry for all academic levels. You can basically get out as much as you can put in. Look at his collections, 'Playing God' (experiences being a doctor) and 'How We Fell' (the breakdown of a relationship). ||
 * ~ Text Title ||~ Text Author ||~ Comment ||
 * Still I Rise || Maya Angelou || SFH ||
 * Tomcat, Wild Bees, The Ballad of Calvary St, High Country Weather etc... || J.K. Baxter ||  ||
 * Introduction to Poetry || Billy Collins ||  ||
 * Playing God,
 * No Ordinary Sun, The Old Place, The Sea to the Mountains || Hone Tuwhare || I use Hone Tuwhare poems with my Level 2 and I am planning to continue this for 2.1 next year. I use //No Ordinary Sun, The Old Place and The Sea to the Mountains to the River.//

I use Hone Tuwhare's poems - "No Ordinary Sun", "The Old Place" and "The Sea to the Mountains to the River" with my Year 12s for their written text assessment. They enjoy his work and I get some really good results. ||
 * May 1968 || Alice Tawhai || The desire for things out of reach. ||
 * The Makutu on Mrs Jones || Witi Ihimaera || A little boy thinks a woman has been cursed, but her strange changes in behaviour turn out to be that she has unexpectedly fallen for the formidable tohunga, who she appears to hate.

I use "The Seahorse and The Reef" by Witi Ihimaera with Year 9 students as part of a unit on sustainability. We are going to be using "Ka Kite Bro" with Year 10 students as part of a unit on culture. ||
 * Unknown Citizen || WH Auden || Level 2 theme study on Oppression ||
 * Hawk Roosting || Ted Huges || About a hawk surveying his ‘kingdom’ but is also clearly a comment about how humans misuse their power. ||
 * A Rope for Harry Fat || J K Baxter || The corruption of those in office etc. It's about a young man named Te Whiu, one of the last to be executed in NZ for murder. Baxter pleaded for understanding, but he was unsuccessful. ||
 * Dulce et Decorum est || Wilfred Owen ||  ||
 * || Fleur Adcock ||  ||
 * || Carol Ann Duffy ||  ||
 * || Glenn Colquhoun ||  ||
 * || Lauris Edmond ||  ||
 * || Sia Figiel ||  ||
 * || Seamus Heaney ||  ||
 * || Langston Hughes ||  ||
 * || Ted Hughes ||  ||
 * || Karlo Mila ||  ||
 * || Wole Soyinka ||  ||
 * || Robert Sullivan ||  ||
 * The War Poets || Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Thomas ||  ||

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